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Louisiana Medicaid Eligibility Manual Eligibility Factors

Reissued June 9, 2026

Page 54 of I-1630 Replacing September 23, 2024

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If the home property includes property used in a trade or business, consider the current use of the property to determine if the property can be excluded. Refer to Business Assets (Property Essential For Self Support).

Sale of Excluded Home Property

If the home property is offered for sale, it is no longer excludable based on intent to return. “Intent to return” applies only to the continued exclusion of property which met the definition of the individual’s home property prior to the time the individual left the property.

Note: A Nursing Facility resident cannot establish a new home property while residing in a facility as they would have never lived there and the new residence would not meet the definition of home property.

It may still be excludable if:

• The spouse and/or dependent relative lives there.

• An SSI eligible has joint ownership of the home.

• The proceeds of the sale are used to purchase another excluded home within three full calendar months from the receipt of the proceeds.

• The proceeds are received under an installment contract, the proceeds are the down payment and that portion of subsequent payments that is not interest. The contract is excludable if the individual:

- Plans to use the entire down payment and entire principal portion of each installment payment to buy another excluded home, and

- Does so within three full calendar months of receipt of the down payment or installment payment.

Note: "Within three full months" means by the end